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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...not have made it, had I not believed that it would be the means of drawing new readers to Boswell, and eventu- ally of finding for them in the complet... ...ift the back- ground, the interlocutors, the light and shade, in search of new revelations and effects. He pre- sents a succession of many scenes, exq... ...deas, lending vitality and significance to everything about him. A part of education and culture is the exten- sion of one’s narrow range of living to... ...le, and grow into the infinite possibilities of it. But the supreme end of education, we are told, is expert discernment in all things—the power to te... ... practised his own precepts of oeconomy for sev- eral years in the British capital. He assured Johnson, who, I suppose, was then meditating to try his... ...- livened with a gay profusion of colours. Mrs. Bosville, of Gunthwait, in Yorkshire, joined us, and entered into conversation with us. Johnson said t... ...irst time, oat ale; and oat cakes not hard as in Scotland, but soft like a Yorkshire cake, were served at breakfast. It was pleasant to me to find, th...

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...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...Brad- ley—The psychology of character-changes—Emo- tional excitements make new centres of personal en- ergy—Schematic ways of representing this— Starb... ...ted— Characteristics of the faith-state: sense of truth; the world appears new— Sensory and motor automatisms— Permanency of conversions. 7 William J... ...arty and cannibalistic. The defiance of the phrase showed that a Christian education in humility still rankled in his breast. 91 William James and to... ...e tried their hand at curing, but without success. People of cul- ture and education have been treated by this method with satisfactory results. Disea... ...manic races have tended rather to think of Sin in the singular, and with a capital S, as of something ineradicably in- grained in our natural subjecti... ...pity—put a thorn in my nest to prevent me from it.’”[193] The loathing of “capital” with which our laboring classes today are growing more and more in... ...gains. (He seems like one who sweats his life out to earn enough to save a district from fam- ine, and just as he staggers back, dying and satisfied, ...

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One.

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...EOPARD .............................................................................................................................. 108 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE............................................................................................................ 115 THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET. ......................................................................

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....................................................................................................................... 158 Chapter XIV Of the Executive in a Representative Government ........................................................................ 166 Chapter XV Of Local Representative Bodies ..............................................................................

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......................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898.......................................................................................................................... 53 A HAPPY WANDERER?1910 ..................................................................

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...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................

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